The butler took twenty young men, each with a stick in his hand, and tied up seven or eight of them and a few little maids with a few compradors, and lifted the board to beat them.

The board fell on him, and the maid cried and howled for several hours.

Even if the little girl of twelve or thirteen was sold to Ya Pozi when she was a child, she was also a kind master when she arrived at the Gu family, where did she suffer such a crime.

Within two or three hits, there is something that you can't bear.

cried and shouted, "At this time, any of you who did such a bastard thing, tell it quickly." It's hard to get the big guy killed with you! Yes! ”

The timid also begged for mercy: "Big lady! Not me! I really didn't do it. ”

The cries and shouts were so loud that the people on the side couldn't see it.

No matter where they came from, when they came to this house, everyone ate and lived together, and after living for so long, they also had feelings. Watching his brothers and sisters being beaten up, he naturally couldn't look past it with a good heart.

A housekeeper who came with him from the old house of the Gu family stood up.

"Grandma, tell them to stop, I know some clues."

The man was dressed in a coarse cloth coat and a shabby hat, which was not very new, but it was cleanly washed.

Grandma Gu looked familiar with her, and the housekeeper bent over to remind: "He is a gardener from the old mansion." ”

Grandma Gu pondered for a moment, and then remembered who this person was in front of her.

That winter when he went to Zhuangzi to escape the heat, Gu Nanqing naughtily fell into the pond, and there was no one around who was following the people, but an old farmer who was working nearby heard the cry for help and rushed over to save the people.

Grandma Gu thanked the old farmer for his behavior, and heard that he was a childless and lonely man, so she ordered her subordinates to take him back to the mansion.

He had some skills in planting flowers and raising trees, so he got a job as a florist in the house, which can be regarded as a place to support the elderly.

Later, the Gu family moved out and opened a new house.

The housekeeper thought that he was the one brought back by the eldest grandmother, and he was willing to come out with him, so he brought him over, still doing the work of a gardener.

"Tell me, what is the clue?" Grandma Gu motioned to the housekeeper to ask the person who was playing the board over there to stop first.

The old gardener knelt there and kowtowed, "I felt uncomfortable in my stomach at noon that day, when people are old and old, they can't eat, and the host's family loves us, but we can't eat white rice in the house." I thought it would be okay to be idle anyway, so I went to the backyard to see the red plum, and the young lady explained a few days ago that if the red plum bloomed, let me report to the above, and she would break off a few to arrange flowers. ”

The old gardener scratched his head and recalled, "It was about a quarter past noon, I walked to the moon gate in the backyard, and I heard footsteps across the wall, I thought it was a master coming, you also know that we do rough work, when we meet the master to avoid some, I am afraid of the collision, so I set foot on a tower, and hid in the back, who knows that the man did not go directly to the backyard, but looked around, and one dodged to the small gate between the two houses." ”

"Nonsense!" The butler wrinkled his eyebrows and scolded him, "That door has always been guarded, how can you let a big living person pass away in peace." ”

Because the eldest grandmother deliberately explained that he had a good time, so he also specially found two strong people to come here to guard the door, and on weekdays, he only let the masters of the house pass, and the rest of the servants were the next people, because the sixth lady of the courtyard was pregnant with a child, and the grandmother said that he could not let the people run around, and there would be many people at that time, and he was afraid of what stubble.

The old gardener nodded affirmatively: "What I said is true, the figure went to that courtyard, and I saw it with my own eyes." ”

"The gatekeepers are here, why did he just pass?" The old butler only thought he was lying.

This old gardener was a kind-hearted man, and he had to make up nonsense to excuse them because he felt sorry for the children who were beaten and suffered.

Just as the two were about to argue, they saw two strong young men kneeling down.

"Butler, we ...... We were literally unconscious for a while at noon......"

The two of them waited for Ai Ai to tell the story of that day.

Noon is approaching the time for the shift change, the two of them are waiting for the shift change brother to come and take over their place, who knows from somewhere a special fragrance wafted over, the head is dizzy and unconscious, and when the two come back to their senses, they are all confused leaning on the door frame.

I thought that no one would find out about this, although I felt that there might be something strange in this matter, but more things are better than less things, and the two people who have a good heart choose not to say anything.

Who knew that when the old gardener came out and said this, the two of them felt that the time they were in a coma was exactly the same as what the old gardener had just said when a figure passed by, so they felt that it was a big deal.

The two of them looked at each other and decided that it was better to say this kind of thing.

In case the master finds out that it is related to the two of them in the future, he will not be able to tell if he has a mouth.

After listening to the description of the two, the old official of Jingzhao Mansion came out and asked: "But the smell of the incense of worshipping the Buddha in the temple is mixed with a hint of jasmine." ”

The two nodded again and again, "Yes, yes, yes!" It's that smell, and when we smell it, we both have a vague mind, the feeling that we can't remember things and don't know what's going on in front of us. It's vague, but people can still stand there stunned. ”

The old servant looked clear, "They have fallen for the incense." This is a new kind of abduction in the rivers and lakes, which is called let you wind and not pour the ecstasy incense. It's worse than the ones that smell it and fall down like before. ”

Thanks to the disappearance of the eldest lady of the Gu family a few days ago, this kind of thing was found in several abductors who were seized after being reported by unknown people.

"Do you remember what that man looked like when he passed?" Jin Ji stepped forward to ask the old gardener.

I didn't expect that this kind of method of killing chickens and monkeys in the back house and playing around like a joke can really find out something.

The old gardener rubbed his hands and thought about it carefully: "I can't remember the appearance of the front, but I look like I should be dressed as a maid in the house." Looking at the material of the clothes is somewhat noble. If I look at the back, I should be able to remember it. ”

Grandma Gu nodded, and asked all the maids in the house to call over and turn around for the old gardener to identify.

I turned around, but I didn't find anything that looked similar.

The old servant of Jingzhao Mansion frowned, thinking that as long as he found the maid, this matter would be revealed, but he thought that the clue that was in his mouth would be gone.

Jin Ji frowned, turned around and went to the dark to think about things, there was something strange in this, and they always felt that there was something they hadn't thought of, just through the layer of window paper, as long as they poked it lightly in the right place, they could see the light.

The old gardener was also anxious, he clearly remembered the figure of the little girl, but all the people in the mansion had seen it, and they didn't find the one he had seen that day.

Could it be that I am dizzy and forget something.

But he has already made a promise to his wife that he knows that person, if he can't find that person, wouldn't it be tantamount to playing with his wife.

Thinking of this, counting nine cold winters, the old gardener's head was sweating.

Raised his head and privately did a lot, just hoping to find the back he was looking for in the little girl.

"That's it!" Suddenly seeing a figure, the old gardener stood up excitedly, stretched out his hand and pointed forward, "The back I saw that day is exactly the same as that!" ”

Everyone looked in the direction of his finger, where Jin Ji was holding his head in one hand and pondering things.

The old gardener didn't care about this, and walked forward happily, pointing to his back and saying, "That's what it looks like, I remember clearly, that maid has broad shoulders and a thin waist, and looks like a forked peach blossom tree, absolutely right." ”

Everyone pursed their lips and said nothing, this is really old and confused, Lord Jin Ji of Dali Temple, where could he be the murderer who drugged the sixth lady of the Gu family to slip the baby.

Not to mention that he has no purpose, it doesn't make sense that the person who wears a woman's costume and sneaks into the Gu Mansion as a maid.

Unexpectedly, after hearing his words, Jin Ji suddenly woke up.

"Got it! I know why. ”

Jin Ji's eyes brightened, "We all want to fork one thing!" ”

"What's the matter?" The old official of Jingzhao Mansion asked.

With so many experienced case-handling experts here, what else can they not figure out?

Jin Ji smiled: "What they said is right. The gardener saw that the people had gone to the courtyard, but none of the girls in the house could get the right name. Because ......"

Jin Ji raised his eyebrows and smiled proudly: "That maid, he's a man!" ”

"Man?!"

Jin Ji nodded, "Since the gardener said that it was similar to my back, then we might as well think in the direction of men dressing up as women." ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone immediately talked about it.

The old servant came out and said, "I remember a man who is similar to you. As he spoke, a hunchbacked young man was pulled out of the crowd.

Seventeen or eighteen, with an ugly face, and a big bag bulging out of his back.

He is the little guy in charge of pouring night incense in the house.

was thinly dressed before, and passed out in the backyard of the Gu family. The old housekeeper was kind-hearted, took pity on him, and was afraid that he would freeze to death, so he stayed in the house to be responsible for cleaning the toilet and pouring night incense.

He is also content, not noisy or noisy, and does everything that is told to him very well.

The housekeeper once praised him for being hardworking and down-to-earth, and a capable young man.

The old servant kicked him to the ground, "Boy, you still dress up for the master." Lao Tzu immediately saw that your hunchback was fake. ”

And some of them went up and bound him.

A search is true, where is this person hunchback, it is clear that he deliberately made a hunchback and deliberately padded several layers of thick clothes on the hunchback's bag, pretending to be out.